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DR. FREEANDS NEXT GOAL Winner of Preakness Being Pointed for Belmont Stakes-Other Prospective Starters. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 20.— Dr. Freeland, the Light Brigade colt which won the third Preakness that has fallen to Walter J. Salmon, is one of ten or a dozen horses that will take part on June 8 in a renewal of the Belmont Stakes, the Westchester Racing Associations great spring annual for three-y,ear-olds, which should gross between 5,000 and 0,000. The Belmont, a scale-weight gallop of one mile and a half for entire three-year-olds of both sexes, which, in its conditions, conforms faithfully to the conditions of the British Derby, the worlds standard test for three-year-old merit for more than a century and a quarter, should suit Dr. Freeland admirably. A plodder without anything dazzling in the way of early speed, this son of Light Brigade is essentially a stayer, in which respect he is much like his older stable companion Display. In the Preakness he demonstrated that he was a weight packer also. The Preakness is a scale-weight race of one mile and three-sixteenths. If Dr. Freeland can win the impending Belmont — this great annual was instituted by the old New York Jockey Club at Jerome Park in 1867 and yields only to the Travers among the American races in point of use — he will be the second winner Thomat J. Healey, one of the oldest and most skillful of metropolitan trainers, will have saddled. Healey trained Pillory, which won the Belmont of 1922 under the silk of Richard T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Association, after having scored in another Preakness. Not improbably Healey will have a starter in the sixty-first Belmont for Wilson in African, a sorrel son of Olambala and Grace Foster. African, which appears to be a natural distance runner, surprised many of those who gathered at Pimlico for the Preakness by finishing third to Dr. Freeland and Minotaur and beating The Nut, Beacon Hill, Folk-ing, Grey Coat, Essare, Leucite, Soul of Honor and Hermitage. Potential starters with Dr. Freeland and African are Sun Shadow, Blue Larkspur, Be-gorra, Rubicon, Friar Cliff, Shipmaster, Comstockery, Sunvir, Constitution, Jean Valjean, Chestnut Oak, Leucite, Expedite, Hermitage, Vermajo, Flag Day, The Nut, Chi-catie, Jack High, Curate and, possibly, Hustle On, the last named William R. Cots 0,000 Hurry On — Fatima II., yearling of a couple of seasons ago. This outlander did not get to the races last year, but he is training soundly now and Coe and his trainer, Benjamin Creech, believe he will comt across, A
